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CLIP. APPLICATION FILED 00w. 19.1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. MARY E; NICKERSON, OFEIVELAND, oruo.

CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 13, 1906.

T0 at whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, MARY E. NIOKERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented newand useful Improvements in Clips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a clip or attaching device especially adapted for holding a cloth or pad on an ironing-board so that the cloth or pad may be removed if and when desired.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a lan view of the back of the ironing-board, s owing the manner of application of the clips. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the clips. Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the clips. Fig. 4 is an enlarged end view of one of the clips.

Referring particularly to the drawings, 6 indicates an ironing-board, and 7 a cloth or pad thereon. The devices for holding the cloth are applied to the same at the edges thereof on the back of the board, and each de- .vice consists of a spring-plate 8, of steel or other elastic metal, having at one end a tooth 9 and at the other end several teeth 10, which latter are preferably dulled or out off square, so that they will not penetrate or tear the cloth, but will still have sufiicient engagement therewith to prevent any slip thereof. At the end of the plate near the tooth 9 is a hole 11, which receives a screw 12, by which the device is attached to the ironing-board, and which screw causes the pressure of the clip on the cloth or pad. The plate 8 is slightly bent or inclined upwardly at an obtuse angle from the tooth 9, so as to bring the points of the teeth 10 substantially in line with the surface of the board and so by adjustment of the screw the pressure canbe varied.

In use a series of clips are provided to engage the opposite edges of the cloth, as shown in Fig. 1. The tooth 9 of each clip is inserted in the wood of the board and the screw 12 put in place. The extent to which the screw is driven regulates the pressure of the teeth 10 on the cloth, sufficient pressure being given to hold the cloth tightly, the metal of the plate being rather stiff, but still flexible enough to enable it to be sprung up so that the cloth can be pulled out when desired. In this way the cloth can be removed or renewed and the clips do not have to be disturbed, but can remain on the board indefinitely.

The device will be found much more convenient and efiicient than the ordinary method of tacking or sewing the cloth on the board.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

A clip comprising a spring-plate having projecting teeth at its opposite ends, the tooth at one end extending at an obtuse angle, so that when driven in a board the plate inclines upwardly therefrom, and a screw extending through the plate adjacent to said tooth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'MARY E. NIOKERSON. Witnesses:

JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, SHIRLEY BOMMHARDT. 

